(Echo, 21.Oct.2019) — Echo Energy entered into a binding conditional sale and purchase agreement (the “SPA” or “Acquisition Agreement”) for…
(Ecopetrol, 21.Oct.2019) — Ecopetrol S.A. reports that its subsidiary Ecopetrol Óleo e Gás do Brasil Ltda has entered into an…
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 20.Oct.2019) — Heard on the street and LatAmNRG briefs related to EP PetroEcuador lifting force…
(BBC, 20.Oct.2019) — Thousands of people have taken part in a huge clean-up operation to remove oil and tar from…
(Frontera, 20.Oct.2019) — Frontera Energy Corporation will release its third quarter 2019 results after market on Thursday, November 7, 2019…
(Reuters, 20.Oct.2019) — Ecuadorean state oil company Petroecuador said on Sunday it is resuming crude exports after protests this month…
(Petrobras, 18.Oct.2019) — Petrobras informs that, within its ongoing process of contingencies assessment, it will provision R$ 3.2 billion as…
(Reuters, 18.Oct.2019) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro questioned on Friday whether a far-reaching oil spill on the nation’s northeastern shore…
(Sputnik, 18.Oct.2019) — The United States has extended a license that allows certain transactions with PDVSA’s joint venture Nynas AB…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga and Corina Pons, 18.Oct2019) — Venezuela’s opposition last week sent holders of state oil company PDVSA’s 2020…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 18.Oct.2019) — U.S. oil major Chevron Corp is scheduled this month to receive at least one cargo…
(Braskem, 17.Oct.2019) — Braskem, the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas and leading producer of biopolymers in the world, today…
(S&P Global Platts, Brian Scheid and Rosemary Griffin, 17.Oct.2019) — Chevron is pushing back against the Trump administration’s plans to…
(Argus, 17.Oct.2019) — Venezuela’s main political opposition is pressing for a deal with foreign bondholders to suspend a looming $914mn…
(Tass, 16.Oct.2019) — The government of Venezuela is ready to hand over full control over its state-run oil company PDVSA…
(Frontera, 16.Oct.2019) — Frontera Energy Corporation accepted its notice to renew its normal course issuer bid (the NCIB) for its…
(venezuelanalysis.com, 16.Oct.2019) — Venezuela’s CITGO could be seized by creditors. Venezuela’s opposition-held National Assembly (AN) passed a resolution Tuesday branding…
(Reuters, Gram Slattery and Marta Nogueira, 16.Oct.2019) — Brazil’s Senate passed the main text of a bill defining the distribution…
(Oilprice.com, Tsvetana Paraskova, 16.Oct.2019) — Venezuela’s opposition is getting ready to file within days a lawsuit in the United States…
(Reuters, 15.Oct.2019) — A Brazilian Senate committee cleared the way for what may be a record-setting offshore oil rights auction…
(Naturgy, 15.Oct.2019) — Naturgy and Sonatrach entered into an agreement with Mubadala for the acquisition of the 42.09% stake that…
(Reuters, Mariela Nava and Anggy Polanco, 15.Oct.2019) — Venezuelans in border areas are waiting up to six days to fill…
(Reuters, Nidhi Verma and Marianna Parraga, 15.Oct.2019) — India’s Nayara Energy has been using Russian giant Rosneft as an intermediary…
(Petrobras, 15.Oct.2019) — Petrobras signed letters of intent (LoI) with the Japanese company Modec (Marlim Unit 1) and the Malaysian…
(Argus, 15.Oct.2019) — Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly signaled to bondholders today that it will not honor a $914mn principal and…
(Sempra, 14.Oct.2019) — Sempra Energy entered into an agreement to sell its equity interests in its Chilean businesses, including its…
(S&P Global Platts, Brian Scheid, 14.Oct.2019) — Venezuelan oil production, already averaging a historic low near 600,000 b/d, could quickly…
(Petrobras, 11.Oct.2019) — Petrobras signed with Imetame Energia Lagoa Parda Ltda, wholly owned subsidiary of Imetame Energia Ltda, a contract…
(ANP, 11.Oct.2019) — Brazil’s Brazil’s National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Biofuels (ANP) announced the dates for the next…
(QP, 10.Oct.2019) — Qatar Petroleum has won exploration rights in three offshore blocks in Brazil, as part of two bidding…
(Frontera, 10.Oct.2019) — Frontera Energy Corporation announces a third quarter 2019 operational update and notice of financial results and conference…
(Petrobras, 10.Oct.2019) — Petrobras acquired one offshore block in the 16th ANP Bidding Round under the Concession Regime, held by…
(Chevron, 10.Oct.2019) — Chevron Brasil welcomes the results of Brazil’s 16th Bid Round. We are pleased to be part of…
(ANP, 10.Oct.2019) — The 16th Bidding Round collected R$ 8.9 billions in signature bonuses, a record value among the concession…
(Reuters, Marianna Parraga, 9.Oct.2019) — Indian refiner Reliance Industries Ltd is scheduled to resume loading Venezuelan crude in October after a…
(Reuters, 9.Oct.2019) — Petroecuador halted operations of its Trans-Ecuadorean Pipeline System (SOTE) on Wednesday after anti-austerity protests choked off production…
(The Wall Street Journal, Luciana Magalhaes and Jeffrey T. Lewis, 9.Oct.2019) — Long stretches of Brazil’s northeastern coast have been…
(Reuters, 9.Oct.2019) — Aruba on Wednesday reached an agreement with U.S. based Citgo Petroleum Corp to end its contract to…
(SBM, 9.Oct.2019) — SBM Offshore received notification that the Federal Court has formally closed the Improbity Lawsuit filed by the…
(Petrobras, 9.Oct.2019) — Petrobras, following up to the Strategic Partnership signed on 12/18/2017, celebrated a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with…
(Bloomberg, Matthew Bristow and Stephan Kueffner, 8.Oct.2019) — Ecuador’s government abandoned the capital city, Quito, as demonstrators sabotaged oil installations…
(Amazon Watch, 8.Oct.2019) — In response to economic austerity measures announced by Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno on October 1, Ecuador’s…
(Forbes, Ariel Cohen, 8.Oct.2019) — At last month’s United Nations General Assembly, the Lima Group, the U.S.-led coalition of 14…
(CONAIE, 8.Oct.2019) — Indigenous peoples across Ecuador have mobilized against the central government’s neoliberal policies and extractive practices, as have…
(DW.com, 8.Oct.2019) — President Jair Bolsonaro has suggested a criminal element to the mystery oil slicks polluting Brazil’s northeast coast.…
(Reden, 8.Oct.2019) — Reden Investments Chile SpA (“Reden Solar Chile”) and Natixis have successfully closed senior facilities totaling US$96.4 million…
(Reuters, 8.Oct.2019) — Citgo Petroleum Corp this week named a former BP lawyer to take on the company’s top legal…
(Petrobras, 8.Oct.2019) — Petrobras, following up on the release of 11/28/2018, reports that today it completed the sale of its…
(Chron, Sergio Chapa, 7.Oct.2019) — Frequent power outages, theft of equipment, a political tug-of-war and billions of dollars in losses…
(Reuters, Alexandra Valencia and Daniel Tapia, 7.Oct.2019) — Thousands of indigenous protesters marched into capital Quito on Monday in a…